VS Code and Positron
Air provides first class support for both VS Code and Positron, which both support the Language Server Protocol.
Installation
Air is available as an Extension for both VS Code and Positron. The extension comes pre-bundled with an Air binary, so you don’t need anything else to get going! The Air extension is hosted in the VS Code Marketplace and on OpenVSX.
Features
Format on save
Once you have the extension installed, turn on Format on Save for R documents by opening your settings.json and adding:
{
"[r]": {
"editor.formatOnSave": true
}
}You should now be able to simply open an R document, save it, and have the entire document formatted by Air. You can also explicitly call the command Format Document if you’d like to control this manually.
Format selection
To format a selection of code, highlight it with your cursor and run the command Format Selection. Formatting a selection may expand that selection to find the nearest complete fragment of code that is formattable.
Quarto
Quarto support currently only works in VS Code. There is an issue in VS Code itself that currently prevents it from working correctly in Positron, we will fix this in Positron soon.
Format on save
To format all R code cells on save, set this in your settings.json:
{
"[quarto]": {
"editor.formatOnSave": true
},
"[r]": {
"editor.formatOnSave": true
}
}Format cell
When inside an R cell in a Quarto document, use the chorded key combination Cmd+K Cmd+F or the command Quarto: Format Cell to format a single cell.